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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9629601" data-attributes="member: 6877472"><p>Ok, so, if you go back to the post I was responding to, it all started with a comment about a game where the GM's "semi-realistic SF campaign" had the players landing on a sun, and the poster believed too many people got their ideas about science from Star Trek or Star Wars.</p><p></p><p>Micah Sweet replied by saying he doubted either franchise would make a mistake like that without one heck of an explanation.</p><p></p><p>My comment referred to the planet Naboo in Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, which has a liquid water core (the characters pilot a submarine through it, and it's infested with gigantic sea creatures). From what we see of Naboo in Episodes 1 & 2, yes, it has a perfectly normal outer layer consisting of swamps, forests, plains and seas (while Star Wars planets infamously are single-biome, Naboo does have polar ice caps). </p><p></p><p>My point is simply that there was no explanation given in the movie for the planet. Whether or not it could exist is a matter of some debate (do a quick Google search for "could naboo exist" and you're immediately met with "yes" and "no" responses, lol), and I'm not an astrophysicist. But watching the movie did not tell me if such a thing could exist.</p><p></p><p>It's like a debate I had with a friend who is a big Star Wars fan about how midi-chlorians work. He was telling me I was wrong about them, and cited a bunch of EU facts. I told him that I watched the Phantom Menace, and everything I was saying came directly from the movie's dialogue. If people have the "wrong" idea about such things, then it's not their fault that the movie didn't give them all the information. Should a moviegoer be forced to buy tie-in coffee table books to understand the movie they just watched?*</p><p></p><p>*or go to Wookiepedia, but bear in mind, that's a fan site, not an official source of information. Despite being better than official sources of information, lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 9629601, member: 6877472"] Ok, so, if you go back to the post I was responding to, it all started with a comment about a game where the GM's "semi-realistic SF campaign" had the players landing on a sun, and the poster believed too many people got their ideas about science from Star Trek or Star Wars. Micah Sweet replied by saying he doubted either franchise would make a mistake like that without one heck of an explanation. My comment referred to the planet Naboo in Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, which has a liquid water core (the characters pilot a submarine through it, and it's infested with gigantic sea creatures). From what we see of Naboo in Episodes 1 & 2, yes, it has a perfectly normal outer layer consisting of swamps, forests, plains and seas (while Star Wars planets infamously are single-biome, Naboo does have polar ice caps). My point is simply that there was no explanation given in the movie for the planet. Whether or not it could exist is a matter of some debate (do a quick Google search for "could naboo exist" and you're immediately met with "yes" and "no" responses, lol), and I'm not an astrophysicist. But watching the movie did not tell me if such a thing could exist. It's like a debate I had with a friend who is a big Star Wars fan about how midi-chlorians work. He was telling me I was wrong about them, and cited a bunch of EU facts. I told him that I watched the Phantom Menace, and everything I was saying came directly from the movie's dialogue. If people have the "wrong" idea about such things, then it's not their fault that the movie didn't give them all the information. Should a moviegoer be forced to buy tie-in coffee table books to understand the movie they just watched?* *or go to Wookiepedia, but bear in mind, that's a fan site, not an official source of information. Despite being better than official sources of information, lol. [/QUOTE]
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